Andrew Blake
at the Washington Times offers a piece on the European Parliament calling on
President Trump to pardon the traitor and spy Edward Snowden as Attorney
General Barr (seen in the above photo) spoke of his opposition to a pardon.
President Trump
faced added pressure Saturday to pardon former intelligence contractor Edward J.
Snowden on the heels of Attorney General William P. Barr announcing
his opposition.
Marcel Kolaja,
a vice president of the European Parliament, released a letter signed by more
than two dozen colleagues urging Mr. Trump
to grant Mr. Snowden
a presidential pardon.
“We must not persecute those
who put public interest above their personal well-being and security,” said Mr.
Kolaja,
a Czech politician and member of the nation’s Pirate Party.
Mr. Barr, the head of the
Department of Justice, revealed in an interview published the previous day that
he is “vehemently opposed” to pardoning the admitted leaker, meanwhile.
“He was a traitor and the
information he provided our adversaries greatly hurt the safety of the American
people,” Mr. Barr said about Mr. Snowden,
The Associated Press reported.
Mr. Snowden,
37, leaked classified information to the media in 2013 about the U.S. National
Security Agency and its vast domestic and international surveillance
capabilities.
He was overseas when the
Justice Department charged him that summer with violating the U.S. Espionage
Act and theft of government property, and he has not returned home since.
Seven years later, Mr. Trump
just recently told reporters he would “look at” Mr. Snowden’s
case and possibly consider allowing him to return home without risk of
prosecution.
… Presently a resident of
Russia, Mr. Snowden
faces a maximum sentence of decades in federal prison if put on trial in the
U.S. and convicted of all counts he currently faces.
Mr. Trump
previously called Mr. Snowden
a “traitor” and a “spy who should be executed.”
You can read the rest of the
piece via the below link:
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/aug/22/ag-barr-european-parliament-members-clash-over-pot/
You can also read my Washington Times piece on Snowden via the below link:
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